didn't read it to its entirity, but I find the article actually on a topic not previously discussed fully, and find it interesting to here the challenges the web brings to people with disabilities.
And a little lesson in respect from a freidn I know, disabled people is disrespectful, the correct, and respect, way to say it is person with disabilities
read it all the way, it goes into detail about the study and has some good points to it like it is not much harder to make a site accessable, the reasonsites are inaccessable are because of lazy designers and ignorant clients etc. Very very good and well written article.
I have said this before that I can not buy time from trees, I get really busy with working and traveling and stuff like that. I might take a business trip to England soon, so that would mean a time off here. When I get the chance, this will be the primary thing to do, though
Well I do lots of work in application design, and I am a member of another forum where I am in constant conversation with the head admin, a great friend of mine. Once I get everthing done there, I have email to work on for a client who I am helping with CSS (and yes, valid, Mozilla and IE, of course), then I can come here and read your article.
I find it so difficult to find time other than weekends to be here, but I do my best
I don't believe Bill Thompson has ever built a single website - accessible or not - in his life. That guy really is a mong, he has been proved wrong so many times it's a miracle he still has a job.
That said, if this particular article make even one more web developer think about accessiblity then I guess that's a good thing
I think I've mentioned this before, but none of the blind people I know ever use the internet. Still, that's ridiculous.. making a site that's at least somewhat accesibile isn';t that hard.. those numbers shouldn't exist- that this is even a problem shows laziness IMNSHO
Did you notice where the article I posted was, what site it was on? BBC, thats the awesome thing, this article has been visiting a whole lot of people. BBC is not as big here as CNN or fox news, but I am sure overthere in "The land of sheep and computer nerds" to quote davesw it gets a lot of traffic. I am sure I could find some articles that blow it away on www.alistapart.com. Its just kind of awesome that internet accessability is making the news -- in a major news outlet.
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. Its just kind of awesome that internet accessability is making the news -- in a major news outlet.
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